Sewell K. Roberts
Home Town: Rockwood, TN
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Sewell K. Roberts, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. Advancing alone against two enemy positions in succession, Private Roberts killed the machine gunners with hand grenades, allowing our advance to continue. Severely wounded, he refused to be evacuated until ordered to the rear by his company commander.
